Journal
Mar.1st-5th
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Mar.8th-12 (B1.)
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Finishing out the solo project this week, we started on the directors notebook which is our last and final project of this year. For my directors notebook I chose “Punk Rock” by Simon Stephens. I chose this play because it was one that I had read that peaked my interest the most. The play is set in the early 2000’s mostly set in the year of 2009, and is set in a library of a small private school in Stockport England. The story revolves around this group of teenagers going through the preparation of their mock A-levels final exams. Punk Rock centers around stereotypical highschool kids, the bully, the nerd, the jock, the new girl, the smart pretty girl, pretty girls best friend, and the list can go on but those are the main stereotypes seen. Stephens showcases young teens that are living with growing up and finding who they are as well as the burdens and pressures that society puts on them as well.
March.15th-19th
For the week mainly worked on finishing up the context and started on my own experience and seeing plays. I also decided to to mood boards for the sets and costumes and light and things because I am a very visual person and I like to actually see things as well as imagine them. Thorough out the week I have also been finding more sources and such about the play but I also searched a bit deeper in terms of the playwright and certain points in the play that I wanted to know more about, not entirely relevant to the context of the play completely but I just felt like I needed more of the information so I could analyze the play even further and get even a better feel for it. I have been struggling in terms of feeling confused by instructions and interpreting them wrong and not writing about what I am supposed to be writing about. I feel like I can write a really good report about this play as well as do a directors notebook but at the moment for some reason my head is thinking about this as a report and not the assignment at hand so I need to work on that a bit and ease on my intense need to know more and more about every element of the play and look more at the surface of it again.
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My response to this play after reading it was the need to process it fully, so I walked away and then came back to it, with the want to read it again so that was what I did. With having process time and reading it twice I was able to have a full response to it, which was “wow okay amazing yet nerve wrecking”. Even through the second read through I was still having the same response to it as the first time I read it. I feel as if it is that sort of play, no matter the amount of times you read, see, perform it you will still have the same feelings and responses while you are experiencing it, it just draws it out of you. While reading it I never became really immersed like I am used to doing while reading a play or a book, I have the tendency to full imagine a stage and sets and blocking and movement but for some reason with the first read through my brain did not travel to that sort of world of picturing the play but instead just staying present and with the words that are right in front of me which I find very rare when I am reading something. But it was just something about the characters and not getting a full read or feeling of them and not really knowing where the story was going that I feel like put a block up for me not to fully sink into it and create its own world in my head.
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